Prayer to Our Lady of Sorrows (by St. Bridget)

O Blessed Virgin Mary,

Immaculate Mother of God,

who didst endure a martyrdom of love and grief,

beholding the sufferings and sorrows of Jesus!

Thou didst co-operate in the benefit of my redemption

by thy innumerable afflictions

and by offering to the Eternal Father His only-begotten Son as a holocaust and victim of propitiation for my sins.

I thank thee for the unspeakable love

which led thee to deprive thyself of the Fruit of thy womb, Jesus, true God and true Man,

to save me, a sinner.

Oh! make use of the unfailing intercession of thy sorrows

with the Father and the Son,

that I may steadfastly amend my life

and never again crucify my loving Redeemer by new sins;

arid that, persevering till death in His grace,

I may obtain eternal life through the merits of His Cross and Passion.

Amen.

Mother of love, of sorrow, and of mercy,

pray for us.